AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10532, 19 January 1912, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

i THOMPSON-PAYWE PICTURES. A crowded house greeted the c ] liin S' e <xf programme at the Foresters Hal J last evening. A first-class programme ■was submitted. An industrial film, "Mak'ino- ;1 Book,", was of interest to all.. "White Rose of the Wilds," a story of distant goldfiekls, death, iformance" appealed to the pathetic rit, the acting being natural and the ; reproduction perfect. "The Departureof the King and Queen for India'' gave a graphic description of the ■floating pallaoe Medina, on Ayhlch our ! Sovereigns travelled to India. ' , Ai'ter 50 yearn" was a wonderful piece of chini atogi-aphy, the acting, setting, scenery, and general quality"o;f the film being undoubtedly a picture treat. Both Yitagraph works .met with a splendid reception, "A Handsomer Man" causing much amusement, u-hib "The Clown's Heat Pcr- .\ tfrtrwiance" appealed to the pathctim ' side,'- In "Niagara" these wonderful falls are shown to glorious advantage, "the lighting effects being -very fine. The other scenics and topieali all held a high .position in the evening's programme, while the r-nmlov. caused much laughter. The series will be shown agr.m this evening, and parents are reminded that- the ehiddren's matinee takes place at 2.30 tomorrow.

' "THE SPECKLED BAND" S Of "The Speckled Band," which" is to be produced hy J. C. Williamson's new Dramatic Company in the Town Hall 'for a-one night season, on Mon- , day next, Edward Morton,, in the "louden Playgoer, writes:— "'Jhe Speckled Sand," by Sir Cona-u Doyle, is an excellent example of the new kind'(>f play which, is not epecially addressed to the unsophisticated, but is Mke'ly 'to interest all playgoers who can enjoy a good story well told, and who h- there, old or young, .simple or sophisticated, who cannot? While otiher writers for the stago are searching; i'or the new form of drama to which- the old order must yield in. the natural course since the drama is subject to the same .aw of everlasting >as everytTiing else in tlio universal system*, While other writers are searching for the new form, and are simply feeling their way in the dark, Sir Con an Doyle may he said to have discovered a new vein of the old dramas in which, probability is not defied inor the graces of literary expression disdained. "The "Speckled Band" is a. fine, spirited work, in which the fascinating Slier lock Holmes appears onoe moire as the active agent in a desperate adventure in a which is conspicuously well ordered, well written and well acted. The strongest combination off. star dramatic artists'that has ever toured under the management of J. C. Williamson will interpret the play, and the box plan is hearing a much mutilated appearance at the Dresden.